This building was built in Portage, Utah from 1882-1886. Used from 1888 to 1911 for stake conferences. The stake was organized on Sunday, February 12, 1888. In 1911, the stake decided to move the stake center to Malad and a different building. The old Portage Ward chapel (Malad Stake Tabernacle) was started as a brick building in 1882, but due to drought and poor crops not much work had been done. Next year the work continued; the walls were up to the square when, on December 25, a terrific wind storm blew them down. The Saints were unable to start building again until 1885, when a new meeting house was again started on the same foundation. This was a frame structure, 32' X 60' with a 20' ceiling, located in the south center of church block, directly west of the present building. The front door was in the east end and a stage was in the west, or back end. This building served as the Portage Ward chapel and as the stake tabernacle from 1888 to 1911.
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Malad Stake Tabernacle (Old Portage Ward chapel)
This is a conjectural drawing of the Malad Stake Tabernacle, prepared by Richard W. Jackson.